Today we talked about Chapter 6 which focuses on different instructional activities.  Cooperative learning has four main factors:  motivation, social cohesion, personalization and cognitive elaboration.  You must focus on all four of these factors to be productive.

Another interesting idea is some students learn better from peer tutoring as opposed to one-on-one instruction from a teacher.  Some students will not interrupt the teacher to ask a question however they would ask a peer tutor to slow down and explain the concept over until they understand.

The chapter also talked about different classroom techniques that can be used.

C3B4ME technique before a student is allowed to ask the teacher for help they have to ask three other students in class.

Check for Understanding - What Did We Learn Today?  About five minutes before class is over divide the class into groups.  Have each group make a list of what they learned for the day and present their information to the class.